WEBVTT CONCERT.JAZMIN: WE ARE ALSO FOLLOWINGBREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING.FORMER PATRIOTS IN FLORIDA GATORSTAR AARON HERNANDEZ WAS FOUNDHANGING IN HIS MASSACHUSETTSJAIL CELL.MASSACHUSETTS STATE POLICE SAYTHEY FOUND HIM EARLIER THISMORNING AFTER 3:00.HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT AHOSPITAL AN HOUR LATER.POLICE SAY HERNANDEZ TRY TOBLOCK HIS JAIL CELL DOOR FROMTHE INSIDE BY JAMMING THE DOORWITH VARIOUS ITEMS.HERNANDEZ WAS JUST ACQUITTED OFA DOUBLE MURDER AT A BOSTONNIGHTCLUB.

Former UF star Aaron Hernandez commits suicide in prison

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Updated: 10:28 AM EDT Apr 19, 2017

BOSTON —

Former Florida Gator and NFL star Aaron Hernandez, who was serving a life sentence for a 2013 murder and was acquitted in a 2012 double slaying last week, has committed suicide in prison.

Last week, a jury found Hernandez not guilty of first-degree murder in the 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado. He was not charged in those deaths until 2014.

A Massachusetts prisons spokesman said he's not aware of any suicide note written by Aaron Hernandez before the former New England Patriots star hanged himself in his cell, but stresses that the investigation is ongoing.

Assistant Deputy Commissioner of Communications Christopher Fallon also said Wednesday that officials had no concern that Hernandez was planning on taking his own life.

He said Hernandez would have been transferred to a mental health unit if there was any concern about his well-being.

Hernandez's death means his murder conviction is likely to disappear.

Under Massachusetts law, defense attorneys can seek to have convictions vacated when a defendant dies before an appeal is heard.

Removing a conviction after the death of a high profile defendant has precedent in the state.

Former Roman Catholic priest John Geoghan's child molestation conviction was vacated after he was beaten to death in his prison cell in 2003.

John Salvi, who was convicted of killing two abortion clinic workers in Brookline in 1994, also had his convictions dismissed after he killed himself in prison.